"About nine this morning the Prince got to horse; and not long after three, he came past again, with a swarm of Officers; all going full speed for Lissa.

So full of bragging when they came; and now they were off, wrong side foremost! I saw how it was.

And ever after him, the flood of them ran, Highroad not broad enough,--an hour and more before it ended.

Such a pell-mell, such a welter, cavalry and musketeers all jumbled: our King must have given them a dreadful lathering.

That is what they have got by their bragging and their lying,--for, your Excellenz, these people said too, 'Our King was forsaken by his own Generals, all his first people had gone and left him:' what I never in this world will believe." KING (not liking even rumor of that kind).